Bella Napoli Pizzeria & Restaurant

10/05/2026

👀 Something BIG is happening at Bella Napoli today…

We’ve been working behind the scenes on something we’re extremely excited about, and today it’s officially coming together. 🔥🍕

But we’re not showing you just yet. 😏

Tomorrow is the BIG REVEAL.

Any guesses what we’ve been up to? 👇

Stay tuned… Bella Napoli is leveling up. 🇮🇹🔥
Marra Forni Pizza University & Culinary Arts Center US Pizza Team

10/03/2026

🚨 SERVICE UPDATE 🚨

Our Toast POS system is currently experiencing a major nationwide service outage, and Toast is actively working to resolve the issue.

Unfortunately, until the system is restored, we are unable to accept any additional orders, including online orders.

We apologize for the inconvenience and truly appreciate your patience and understanding. 🙏🏼

We hope to be back up and running shortly and will update everyone as soon as service is restored.

Thank you,
Bella Napoli Pizzeria & Restaurant 🍕🇮🇹

09/26/2026

Negativity has never built a damn thing.

It won’t make you better.
It won’t make your business stronger.
It won’t improve your relationships, your craft, or your life.

What it WILL do is bring you down, drain the people around you, and slowly grow your own personal peanut gallery—a crowd full of people who are great at talking, criticizing and complaining, but rarely doing.

Be careful what you feed.

Feed negativity, and it multiplies.
Feed growth, gratitude, hard work and good people—and watch what happens.

I’d rather sit at a small table with people trying to become 1% better every day than have a packed room full of people explaining why everyone else is doing it wrong.

Impact over influence. Progress over noise.

The peanut gallery can keep the cheap seats. 😎

09/23/2026

📰🍕 DID YOU SEE YESTERDAY’S FRONT PAGE?!

What an incredible moment for the entire Bella Napoli Pizzeria & Restaurant family!

Yesterday, our own Vitangelo “Vito” Recchia was featured on the front cover of the Charlotte Sun, celebrating his recent trip to Sweden where he brought home 1st Place in Teglia at the Pizza Champion Cup Championships International. 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇸🇪🏆

But this recognition represents so much more than one competition or one trophy.

Bella Napoli has been part of this community since 2003, and none of these moments happen without the people who have supported us along the way.

To our incredible staff — thank you for holding down the fort, believing in what we do, and representing Bella Napoli every single day.

To our customers and community — thank you for every dinner, every pizza, every celebration, every recommendation, every encouraging message, and every year you continue to choose our family and our restaurant.

To Vito’s family — Theresa, Benny and James — thank you for supporting the countless hours, travel, competitions, teaching, testing and dedication that happen behind the scenes.

And a huge THANK YOU to the Charlotte Sun for sharing Vito’s story and putting this accomplishment on the front page. Seeing Bella Napoli and our hometown represented like this is something we’ll never take for granted.

The trophy came home from Sweden, but the support that made the journey possible has always been right here in Charlotte County. ❤️

From our entire Bella Napoli family:

THANK YOU.

We’re proud. We’re grateful. And we’re just getting started. 🍕🏆

One percent better every day. Impact over influence.

— The Bella Napoli Family ❤️
US Pizza Team

PORT CHARLOTTE — Vito Recchia, owner/pizzaiolo of Port Charlotte’s 23-year-old Bella Napoli Pizzeria & Restaurant, took a stowaway along on a recent trans-Atlantic flight.

09/15/2026

🚨 DID YOU HEAR THE NEWS?! 🇺🇸🇸🇪🏆🍕

The cat’s officially out of the bag…

BELLA NAPOLI IS BRINGING HOME THE GOLD FROM SWEDEN! 🥇

From Port Charlotte, Florida, to Gothenburg, Sweden, Bella Napoli owner and pizzaiolo Vitangelo “Vito” Recchia stepped onto the international stage at the International Nordic Pizza Champion Cup — and walked away with 1ST PLACE in Gourmet Pan Pizza!

🔥 The winning pizza: “TEGLIA WITH MAGIC.” 🔥

Vito created this Roman-style teglia specifically for Sweden, combining his technique and years of work with flavors inspired by Scandinavia.

Potato cream. Crème fraîche. Butter-poached langoustines. Chanterelles. Lingonberry gastrique. Smoked sea salt.

When competition day arrived, everything came together.

Just perfect on all accounts.

But this win is bigger than one pizza and one trophy.

It represents the countless hours of testing, failures, adjustments, education and sacrifice that happen when nobody is watching.

Most importantly, it represents Vito’s family -his wife Theresa and their boys, Benny and James - who make the sacrifices behind the scenes every time he travels, teaches, competes and continues chasing the next level.

It represents the entire Bella Napoli staff, who hold down the fort back home.

It represents our customers, Port Charlotte and Southwest Florida, who have supported Bella Napoli and this journey year after year.

Bella Napoli has called Port Charlotte home since 2003.

Now, a neighborhood pizzeria from Southwest Florida has stood on top of an international podium in Sweden. 🇸🇪🏆

Sweden knows the name now.
Southwest Florida knew it first.

🥇 1ST PLACE — SWEDEN 2026
🍕 TEGLIA WITH MAGIC
🇺🇸 BELLA NAPOLI — PORT CHARLOTTE, FLORIDA

Impact over influence.
One percent better every day.

And this time…

that one percent brought home GOLD. 🏆

Congratulations, Vito — and congratulations to Theresa, Benny, James, the Bella Napoli team, and the entire Bella Napoli family. 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇸🇪🍕

09/11/2026

September 11, 2001 — September 11, 2026 🇺🇸

Twenty-five years.

For those of us old enough to remember that morning, September 11th isn’t simply a date in a history book.

We remember where we were.

We remember who we were with.
We remember watching the television in disbelief.
We remember the smoke. The towers. The Pentagon. Flight 93.
We remember realizing that the world we woke up in that morning would never be the same again.

But we should also remember what happened after.

We watched firefighters, police officers, paramedics and ordinary Americans run toward danger while everyone else was trying to escape it.

We watched strangers help strangers.

We watched communities come together.

And for a moment, the things that normally divided us seemed incredibly small compared to the thing that united us:

We were Americans.

Today, 25 years later, an entire generation has grown up knowing September 11th only through photographs, videos, classrooms and the stories we tell them.

That makes our responsibility even greater.

We have to tell them what happened.

We have to tell them about the 2,977 lives taken that day.

But we also have to tell them about the courage, sacrifice, compassion and unity that followed.

September 11th changed our country forever. It changed families forever. It sent men and women into wars, brought first responders into unimaginable circumstances, and left wounds that continue long after the cameras disappeared.

So today isn’t about politics.

It’s about people.

The people we lost.
The families who never got their loved ones back.
The first responders who ran toward the unimaginable.
The men and women who served our country afterward.
And everyone who still carries the physical and emotional scars of that day.

Twenty-five years have passed.

Remember the day.
Remember the lives.
Remember the heroes.
Remember how this country came together.

And make damn sure the generations who weren’t there understand why we promised:

WE WILL NEVER FORGET. 🇺🇸

September 11, 2001.

09/02/2026

12 YEARS. ONE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY. ❤️🇮🇹

Twelve years ago today, I signed the dotted line.

I remember the nerves. I remember the anxiety. And I remember knowing that what we were taking on was bigger than simply owning a restaurant.

Because Bella Napoli was never ours to create from scratch.

Someone else had the vision and courage to create Bella Napoli in 2003, and from that original creation came the opportunity for us to take the torch, respect what was built, and write the next chapter.

Bella Napoli was already great. It was already a staple of this community. It already had loyal guests, history and a name people trusted.

Our responsibility was never to erase that history. It was to build on it.

And build we did.

Over the last 12 years, Bella Napoli has grown and evolved into what you see today — an expanded restaurant, a full and extensive bar, an ever-evolving food and pizza program, statewide recognition as Best of Florida, and, most importantly, a restaurant that continues to be part of the fabric of this community.

We’ve experienced incredible highs, difficult days, long nights, mistakes, lessons, awards, growth and plenty of moments when we simply had to put our heads down and keep going.

But none of it happens without people.

To every staff member, past and present, who has put on a Bella Napoli shirt and helped us get here — thank you. Your hard work, loyalty and commitment are part of this story.

To our community and every guest who has supported us, recommended us, challenged us, celebrated with us, brought your families through our doors and continued coming back year after year — thank you for trusting us.

That trust has allowed us to take someone else’s original dream and continue building it into the Bella Napoli of today.

From its beginning in 2003, to us taking the reins 12 years ago, to everything Bella Napoli has become today — every chapter matters.

We are simply the current caretakers of a story that continues to be written.

So here’s to 23 years of Bella Napoli.
Here’s to 12 years of our journey.
And here’s to the next 12. 🥂🇮🇹❤️

We’re still learning. Still evolving. Still pushing. Still trying to become one percent better every single day — without ever forgetting where we came from.

Congratulations to everyone who has been part of Bella Napoli. This milestone belongs to all of us.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.

Vito & Theresa
Bella Napoli Pizzeria & Restaurant

Impact over influence. Always.

08/28/2026

Man… we’ve been on a ROLL this week on Facebook. 😂🍕🔥

And then… we dropped the ball with our new online ordering platform. 🤦🏻‍♂️

For anyone who placed an order through bellanapoli1938.com - Owner.com and experienced delays, issues, or other mishaps, we truly apologize. That’s not the experience we expect our guests to have. If a refund is due and hasn’t already been processed, we’ll make sure it’s taken care of.

On the flip side, if you DID have a good experience with the new platform, we want to hear that too! 👍🏻 Your feedback—good or bad—helps us bring real information back to the company hosting and managing the platform so these issues can be corrected.

For the time being, we are REMOVING the new online ordering option until the hiccups are figured out and we’re confident it works the way it should.

🍕 ONLINE ORDERING IS STILL AVAILABLE THROUGH SLICE!

You can order directly here:
https://bellanapolipizzeriacharlotte.com

Or search Bella Napoli Pizzeria & Restaurant on Slice.

We appreciate everyone’s patience, feedback, and continued support. New systems sometimes have growing pains, but when something isn’t working properly, we’re not going to pretend it is.

We’ll get it fixed. We’ll get it right. And we’ll keep moving forward. 🇮🇹🍕❤️

— Vito, Theresa & the entire Bella Napoli Team 🇮🇹❤️

View the menu, hours, address, and photos for Bella Napoli Pizzeria & Restaurant in Port Charlotte, FL. Order online for delivery or pickup.

08/28/2026

🍕🔥 NEW AT BELLA NAPOLI — THE MILANO PAN PIZZA! 🔥🍕

Just LOOK at this thing. 🤌😍

Meet our new Milano Pan Pizza — thick, light, crispy, airy, and built for serious flavor.

And this beauty? The Dolce Fa Niente. 🇮🇹❤️

Golden crispy crust. Melted cheese. Beautifully cupped pepperoni. Fresh basil. A snowfall of freshly grated cheese. 🤤🔥

Crispy on the outside. Light and airy inside. Absolutely ridiculous on top.

This is the kind of pizza you stare at for five minutes… then destroy in five. 😂🍕

Come try the Dolce Fa Niente Milano Pan Pizza and tell us what you think!

⚠️ Sharing is technically allowed. We just don’t recommend it.

🍕 NEW MILANO PAN PIZZA
🇮🇹 Only at Bella Napoli

WHO’S READY TO TRY THIS?! 👇🔥🍕


Galbani Professionale USUS Pizza TeamStanislaus and Corto Life

08/27/2026

🚨 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: WE’RE EXPANDING!!! 🚨

…just kidding. 😂😂😂
Relax. Nobody call the contractor.

HOWEVER… we DO have some pretty incredible news that we’ve been holding onto since the end of July. 🇮🇹🍕🏆

For the THIRD YEAR IN A ROW, Bella Napoli has been voted BEST OF FLORIDA 2026 for:

🏆 BEST ITALIAN RESTAURANT
🏆 BEST PIZZA

THREE. YEARS. STRAIGHT. ❤️🤍💚

We’re thrilled, humbled, and incredibly proud—but this belongs to a lot more people than just us.

To our staff: THANK YOU. You’re the ones grinding through the busy nights, the long shifts, the chaos, and everything that happens behind the scenes to make Bella Napoli what it is.

And to our guests, customers, friends, and community: THANK YOU. Every visit, every order, every recommendation, every review, and every person who continues to support this little Italian restaurant means more than you know.

We couldn’t have done this without you. Period.

Unfortunately, because our Bella Napoli and associated Facebook accounts are currently restricted, we can post this to our page, but we can’t share it around like we normally would. So we’re asking for a little help:

🙏 PLEASE SHARE THIS POST AND HELP US SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS!

Three years in a row doesn’t mean we sit back. It means the bar gets raised again.

Better food. Better service. Better Bella Napoli. One percent better every day.

From our entire Bella Napoli family—THANK YOU, FLORIDA! 🇮🇹🍕❤️

🏆 BEST OF FLORIDA 2026
🍝 Best Italian Restaurant
🍕 Best Pizza

Now THAT was the announcement. 😎